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Rda in a_nutshell_september_2017

2.
Vision
Researchers and innovators openly
share data across technologies,
disciplines, and countries to address
the grand challenges of society.
Mission
RDA builds the social and technical
bridges that enable open sharing of
data.
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3.
What is RDA?
RDA is an international member based organization focused on the
development of infrastructure and community activities that reduce
barriers to data sharing and exchange, and the acceleration of data
driven innovation worldwide.
With more than 6,000 members globally representing 130 countries,
RDA includes researchers, scientists and data science professionals
working in multiple disciplines, domains and thematic fields and from
different types of organisations across the globe.
RDA is building the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of
data to achieve its vision of researchers and innovators openly sharing data
across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges
of society.
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6.
Why Join RDA as an Individual
Member?
Individual Member Benefits
◦ Contribute to acceleration of data infrastructure development
◦ Work and share experiences with collaborators throughout the
world
◦ Access to extraordinary network of colleagues with various levels
of experience, perspectives and practices
◦ Gain greater expertise in data science regardless of whether one is
a student, early or seasoned career professional
◦ Enhance the quality and effectiveness of personal work and
activities
◦ Improve one’s competitive advantage professionally and
positioning oneself for leadership within the broader research
community
rd-alliance.org/get-involved/individual-membership.html
Individual RDA Members 6070
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9.
Why Join RDA as an
Organisational Member?
Organisational Member Benefits
◦ Provide an organizational perspective on the work of RDA and ability to
influence RDA’s direction
◦ Assist in implementation & adoption of RDA Recommendations &
Outputs
◦ Participate in all RDA Organizational Forums
◦ Receive regular updates on the work of the RDA
◦ Attend Organizational Assembly meetings and vote on proposed policies
for consideration by the RDA Council and for members of the
Organizational Advisory Board
◦ Provide advice to RDA Council through the Organizational Advisory Board
◦ Be recognized on the RDA Website and at RDA Meetings as a supporter of
data interoperability
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43 Organisational & 8 Affiliate Members
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14.
RDA Recommendations that
make data work
rd-alliance.org/recommendations-outputs
Adopted code, policy, specifications, standards, or practices
that enable data sharing
“Harvestable” efforts for which 12-18 months of work can
eliminate a roadblock
Efforts that have substantive applicability to groups within
the data community but may not apply to all
Efforts that can start today
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“Create - Adopt - Use”
18 flagship recommendations & outputs with over
75 cases of adoption in different domains, organisations and countries

15.
THE RDA OUTCOMES LEGEND
Recommendations: are the flagship outputs of RDA. They are
RDA’s equivalent of the “specifications” or “standards” that
other organisations create and endorse. The process for
creating and endorsing these is already defined.
Supporting Outputs: are the outputs of RDA WGs and IGs that
are fruit of RDA work, but are not necessarily adoptable
bridges. “Upon request”, these sort of outputs go through a
community comment period and if no major objections or gaps
are identified they get the RDA Brand.
Other Outputs: include workshop reports, published articles,
survey results, etc. Anything a WG or IG wants to register and
report. Upon request, these are published and discoverable on
the RDA website but have no level of endorsement.
RDA Recommendations & Outputs
rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-
and-outputs
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17.
Data Citation: defining mechanisms to reliably cite dynamic data
Data Description Registry Interoperability solutions enabling cross
platform discovery based on existing open protocols and standards
Wheat Data Interoperability impacting the discoverability,
reusability and interoperability of wheat data by building a
common framework for describing, representing linking and
publishing wheat data
Brokering Governance WG: Sustainable Business Models for
Brokering Middleware to support Research Interoperability
RDA/CODATA Summer Schools in Data Science and Cloud
Computing in the Developing World WG: A framework to run a
series of Summer Schools in Data Science and data sharing in low
and middle income countries (LMICs)
RDA Recommendations & Outputs
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18.
Repository Audit and Certification DSA–WDS: A convergent DSA-WDS
certification standard to help eliminate duplication of effort, increase
certification procedure coherence and compatibility thus benefitting
researchers, data managers, librarians and scientific communities.
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Bibliometrics: improved research data metrics and
corresponding services, with the final goal of increasing the overall availability
and quality of citations and research data itself.
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Workflows: enhance the possibilities for greater
discoverability and a more efficient and reliable reuse of research data
benefitting other stakeholders like publishers, libraries and data centres.
RDA/WDS Publishing Data Services: A universal interlinking service between
data and the scientific literature. The Scholix initiative a high level
interoperability framework for exchanging information about the links
between scholarly literature and data. It aims to build an open information
ecosystem to understand systematically what data underpins literature and
what literature references data.
RDA Recommendations & Outputs
rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-
and-outputs
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19.
23 Things: Libraries For Research Data An overview of practical, free,
online resources and tools that users can immediately take advantage
of to incorporate research data management into the practice of
librarianship.
RDA Recommendations & Outputs
rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-
and-outputs
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Legal Interoperability of Research Data Principles and Implementation
Guidelines: a set of principles and practical implementation guidelines
offered as high-level guidance to all members of the research
community —the funders, managers of data centers, librarians,
archivists, publishers, policymakers, university administrators, individual
researchers, and their legal counsel.
Matrix of use cases and functional requirements for research data
repository platform Based on use cases, the matrix describes forty-
four functional requirements identified for research data repository
platforms and provides a score identifying relative importance.
rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs
BioSharing Recommendations Data repositories, standards and
policies in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences

20.
Adoption & Implementation
“Solving the problem must include adopters in the process, to ensure
that real problems are addressed. Open problem solving is the key.”
RDA Recommendations and Outputs take the form of technical
specifications, code, policies or practices, harmonized standards or
reference models. In the widest sense these aim for:
Greater data sharing, exchange, interoperability, usability and re-usability;
Greater discoverability of research data sets;
Better management, stewardship, and preservation of research data;
New data standards or harmonization of existing standards.
75 Adoption Cases
https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-
outputs/adoption-recommendations
Find out how you can become an Adopter
https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outcomes/become-rda-adopter
Addressing data challenges
https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-
outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs
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RDA Adoption & Implementation
Stories - Tell us yours!

21.
Call for Supporting and Other
RDA Outputs
https://rd-alliance.org/call-supporting-and-other-rda-outputs
If your group has produced something that you
would like to share with the broader community,
please send it to enquiries@rd-alliance.org and
indicate whether you would like it to be considered
as a ‘Supporting’ or ‘Other’ output.
rd-alliance.org/call-supporting-and-other-rda-outputs
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22.
What are Plenary Meetings?
Organised around the world every 6 months
exciting & productive events bringing together a
unique community of data science professionals, from
multiple disciplines and domains;
help move the community forward in creating
tangible deliverables that improve data sharing across
disciplines, technologies, and countries;
heart of the plenaries are working meetings of RDA
Working & Interest groups and new potential groups
through Birds of a Feather meetings
presentation of new Outputs and Adoption cases
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